The fine folks over at Fiction Writers Review are celebrating National Short Story Month too, and their big addition to the month is The Collection Giveaway Project.
The easiest way for me to explain it is to simply lift the words of Contributing Editor, Erika Dreifus as she explains the idea over at their site:
To participate in Short Story Month 2011: The Collection Giveaway Project , here’s what to do:
(1) Post an entry on your blog recommending a recently published short story collection (or two, or three).
The post can be long or short, a review or merely a rave. The one requirement is that you, the blogger, have read and loved the book(s) in question.
(2) Offer a copy of the book (or each book) as a giveaway to one lucky person who comments on your blog.
You can choose the winner through a drawing, or by the wittiness of his/her remarks, or by whatever criteria you choose.
NOTE for blogger-authors: You can absolutely give away a copy of your own collection—but in an effort to keep this as much about community as publicity, please also offer to give away a second book that isn’t one of yours.
(3) Announce the winner(s) on May 31, 2011, and arrange to send out copies of any books you are giving away.
If you’re participating, drop Erika an email at erika [at] fictionwritersreview.com **with the link to your giveaway post!** to let us know. We’ll add you to the list of participating blogs/sites and link to you from this page on our site. We’ll update the list now and throughout May!
We here at the EWN will certainly be participating. We will do so with the following collections:
a) Visiting Hours edited by Daniel E Wickett
b) Love Doesn't Work by Henning Koch
c) Knuckleheads by Jeff Kass
d) Misfits and Other Heroes by Suzanne Burns
In order to be eligible, I need you to comment on this particular post (at the blog, not on Facebook--though comments at FB are always appreciated, they just will not be eligible to win a free book) and how you were last affected by Visiting Hours, or why you don't think Love Works, or how you are a Knucklehead or a Misfit. At the end of the month, I will go through these and select the one for each scenario that grabs my attention the hardest and ask for those addresses.
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